On July 4, 2019, NVC Foundation attended a gathering organized by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology for its valued partners. NVC uses FNRI technology to manufacture Mingo Meals, the food supplement it produces in-house and uses in its nutrition program for young children. At the...
In the village of Tanguango, up in the mountains of Capalong, Davao del Norte, four classrooms are rising to serve the children of the community, who used to walk up and down mountain trails and cross wide rivers–swimming through them when their parents could not afford the Php 5 fare on a raft. Here where...
Sometime last year, we read the story of a boy who died of malnutrition in a village called Glab in the far reaches of Zamboanga del Sur in Mindanao. We set out to search for the area, difficult and challenging though it was, because we knew that if there was news of one malnourished child,...
It took eight years and over 8 million Mingo Meals before the father of Mingo finally visited the production plant that he inspired. Engineer Rowen Gelonga (pictured on the right), Regional Director of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology (DOST), pushed NVC all those years ago to look into the plight of infants and...
NVC’s Peter Project, aimed at helping fisherfolk, was named after St. Peter the Apostle, himself a fisherman. A popular Easter story is about Peter, who decides to fish after Jesus’ death and is joined by the other disciples. They come up with nothing until the resurrected Jesus appears, and the resulting catch is so great...
NVC was invited to take part in Nespresso’s Recycling Journey, held on April 25, 2019 in Makati to launch Nespresso Philippines’ recycling projects and share information on some of the many ways Nespresso coffee capsules can be repurposed. Nespresso capsules are used by NVC’s artisans to create beautiful, high-value art pieces. The event was covered...
Bacolod Tay Tung High school students, faculty, and staff recently took four joy rides on Mingoy the Food Shuttle. The journeys fed almost 1,000 hungry stomachs through a concert organized by the whole Tay Tung community. Tay Tung started its giving journey with NVC by organizing the Harmony for Marawi concert in 2017 to bring...
Mingoy, NVC’s food shuttle, was designed to go anywhere it’s needed in Negros and neighboring islands. Two days after a fire that affected 17 households in Purok Kahirup,Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City, Mingoy was on the scene to distribute Mingo Meals to children and arroz caldo with pan de sal to adults taking shelter in an...
With classrooms in their own villages, kids in remote mountain areas in will no longer need to cross rivers or walk up and down mountains to school.
Mingoy, NVC’s food shuttle, went on its first Mingo mission on February 19, 2019–two days after its inauguration. Its maiden voyage was sponsored by the loved ones of NVC member Nelia Jacinto, who was celebrating her 84th birthday. In Nelia’s honor, Mingoy drove up to Km 84 and reached Brgy. Biniquil, Kabankalan, where we distributed...
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